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Australian cybersecurity firm helped decipher Zhenhua Data leak
Canberra-based company Internet 2.0 recovered a vast trove of information from leaked but corrupted China files, revealing China's profiling of millions of people around the globe.
The company's co-founder Robert Potter said his company was able to recover the records of about 250,000 people from the leaked files, including about 52,000 Americans, 35,500 Australians and nearly 10,000 Britons － among them are politicians such as the prime ministers Scott Morrison and Boris Johnson and their relatives, the royal family, celebrities, and military figures.
Potter conceded that most of the data was based on material openly available on platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Crunchbase and LinkedIn.
Source: The Guardian #Sep15
#China #Cybersecurity #ZhenhuaDataLeak #Australia
Canberra-based company Internet 2.0 recovered a vast trove of information from leaked but corrupted China files, revealing China's profiling of millions of people around the globe.
The company's co-founder Robert Potter said his company was able to recover the records of about 250,000 people from the leaked files, including about 52,000 Americans, 35,500 Australians and nearly 10,000 Britons － among them are politicians such as the prime ministers Scott Morrison and Boris Johnson and their relatives, the royal family, celebrities, and military figures.
Potter conceded that most of the data was based on material openly available on platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Crunchbase and LinkedIn.
Source: The Guardian #Sep15
#China #Cybersecurity #ZhenhuaDataLeak #Australia